Indoor/Outdoor Floor Lamp with an Elemental Form Design: Thomas Sandell Create a new atmosphere with Light House. A freestanding floor lamp with soft light that filters through a matt opal acrylic diffuser. Light House is available as both an indoor and outdoor version, so you can place it in your garden. The outdoor version has [...]

Meet the most versatile tent that acts like a hammock. This new product from Tentsile is a portable suspended habitation unit which is adaptable to any environment and is suitable under all conditions. The structure comprises of a collapsable frame of webbing straps encased with a polyester fabric fly sheet. Tentsile offers the beneficial comfort [...]

If your day isn’t complete without that cup of espresso – and time is short – then we have the gadget for you. Handpresso Auto allows you to brew up a tasty espresso from the comfort of your driver’s seat. Handpresso uses your cigarette lighter for power. All you need to do is add water [...]

House of Marley is a company that takes two of Bob Marley’s most widely admired traits – his love of music and his commitment to excellence – and translates them into lovingly crafted, ecologically conscious products which aim to improve the experience of listening to music. Built to support a Marley-esque lifestyle, the products are [...]

Daniel Weil is a partner of Pentagram and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. Weil has been working as an architect and designer since 1977 and his projects have included products, packaging, interiors and art direction for such companies as Swatch, Lego, and United Airlines. Recently, Weil was privately commissioned to create [...]

Check out the amazing Sketchbook of Susan Kare over at PLoS BLOGS. See the early iconic designs from the pioneer at Apple who is largely responsible for the leap from command line to intuitive Graphical User Interfaces. Steve Silberman has written a terrific article on how Ms. Kare, a Ph.D. in Fine Arts, came to [...]

How amazingly convenient. Ori Levin, a designer based in Israel for Tsor Design Studios, has created the Adhoc Folding Canoe. Take your canoe anywhere, as this full-size canoe can be folded into a bag the size of a standard backpack (13 x 23 x 70 centimeters), and weighs only 4.1 kilograms. More info.

London based designer Samuel Wilkinson has designed a flora terrarium that links to your iPad or iPhone. Biome is a flora terrarium that’s works a little like a live tamagotchi – with a smartphone or Ipad as its key to controlling its climate, water level and nutrients. The idea promotes ‘digital downtime’ by finding an [...]

The wider separation of the Huffington Post and the rest of AOL, however, has fueled questions about the Huffington Post’s long-term future at the company. Ms. Huffington said Thursday that she had been approached by private-equity firms interested in buying the Huffington Post, although the overtures went nowhere. She said she had no intention of [...]

AT&T is all set to enter the home security and automation business. Called “AT&T Digital Life,” the services would allow consumers to remotely monitor their homes and protect them from intruders, fire and water damage. Consumers can also control door locks or perform things like changing the temperature setting on the thermostat, no matter where [...]

Curious of the social media strategies of LVMH? The Paris luxury colgolmorate (Louis Vuitton, Dom Pérignon, Marc Jacobs) shares their Facebook strategies with the WSJ: One of the ways it manages those brands is through a carefully managed social media campaign, primarily focused on Facebook pages. Thomas Romieu, group digital director for LVMH, told CIO [...]

Conversations over the dinner table with his med-student girlfriend helped Mark Zuckerberg formulate his latest big idea — harnessing the power of Facebook to help eliminate the critical shortage of organs for patients desperately in need of life-saving transplants. And it was his friendship with Apple founder Steve Jobs, whose life was extended by years [...]

Facebook CEO announces his social network site will now encourage its users to register to donate – and tell a friend

Brilliant. Churchkey Can Co. is a new pilsner packaged in retro flat top cans, brought to life through a partnership between “Entourage” star Adrian Grenier and friend Justin Hawkins, who came up with the idea. Partners include the Ball Corporation (which designed the can), a few homebrewers in Portland, Ore. (who designed the recipe) and [...]

While taking a stroll in NYC’s Central Park with baby Blue Ivy Carter safely in a BabyBjörn, new mother Beyonce was spotted with her BlackBerry Porsche Design P’9981. According to The Sun, the ultra-exclusive $2,000 Porsche-designed BlackBerrys were gifts from Kanye West to Beyonce and Jay-Z: The stainless steel and leather P’9981 handset is available [...]